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# IPM Issue 6 Editor’s Overview

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# IPM Issue 6 Editor’s Overview

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Sharpe, Andrew. 2003. “Editor’s Overview.” International Productivity Monitor, No. 6 (Spring 2003): 1–2. https://www.csls.ca/ipm-archive/issue-6/

## Author:

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Andrew Sharpe
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

## IPM Issue 6

Spring 2003 pp. 1–2

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The editorial overview for Issue 6 introduces seven articles covering: lessons for Canada from the U.S. growth resurgence; factors explaining higher U.S. productivity levels relative to Canada; differences in annual work hours per capita between Canada and the U.S.; whether trend productivity growth has increased in Canada; the contribution of ICT-producing and ICT-using industries to productivity growth in Canada, the U.S., and Europe; data sources for international productivity comparisons; and a review of the volume Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity.

Cet aperçu éditorial pour le numéro 6 présente sept articles portant sur : les enseignements pour le Canada de la reprise de croissance américaine; les facteurs expliquant les niveaux de productivité américains plus élevés par rapport au Canada; les différences dans les heures de travail annuelles par habitant entre le Canada et les États-Unis; la question de savoir si la croissance tendancielle de la productivité a augmenté au Canada; la contribution des industries productrices et utilisatrices de TIC à la croissance de la productivité au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe; les sources de données pour les comparaisons internationales de productivité; et une recension de l’ouvrage Towards a Social Understanding of Productivity.

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